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This is a direct reference to the Proud Boys who use the gold wreath FAFO logo. I fully believe Elon is going to utilize vigilante violence to enforce things. You should take this seriously.

🎉 Great being with @indivisiblelab.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social at the @warren.senate.gov town hall. 📣 We are the calvary @indivisible.org

Thoughts on Xitter I (sadly) still see people posting links to X here on Bluesky, even if their intentions are good. For example, if someone is trying to draw attention to something terrible posted over on Xitter, or to share an important news story that they happened to read there. 1/4

“The CFPB is there to make sure that Elon's new project can't scam you or steal your sensitive personal data...This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops, and turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.” US Sen. Elizabeth Warren More here:

More Good News For Us That’s Bad For Trump We all could use some good news after another week of the Trump and Musk madness. And that’s what I’ve got for you today. I hope it gives you a break from this chaos—even if just for a moment.

It is essentially a coup by an unelected bureaucrat 👇 Tell Congress to pass the "Stop the Steal" bill to prevent Elon Musk from meddling with our payment systems and data here: bit.ly/4gnneKE

He nails it.

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

I am proposing a new organized labor movement that collectively across all industries…uses sick days and vacation days for coordinated action. 100M people not showing up for work for a few days to a week at a time would bring the nation to its knees.

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

Call to Action: No human is illegal rally. Coachella, California. Feb 22 at 12:30PM to 4:30PM "Stop the deportations." #3E #USProtest #ISProtest #ProtestCA #Feb22

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

need to invent a worse word for nazi bc ppl are not ashamed enough of being a nazi

There is no good reason to be on Elon Musk's twitter. You're just a daily active user at a digital klan rally.

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

Regarding violence vs nonviolence, the right to peacefully protest is enshrined in the human rights charter. All protest should be nonviolent for as long as it is permitted to be by the state or oligarchy. That said, respect each others right to peacefully assemble; know when to withdraw or defend.

when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

sorry, pronouns in bio triggered us so hard we had to become a fascist dictatorship over it

Donald Trump has officially declared himself the King of the United States.

🫡 #ff7

"And so it begins," i say, meaningfully, gesturing at something that has been decades in the making

Following the dictator's playbook, Trump is attacking freedom of the press through bogus lawsuits. If Paramount (CBS’ parent company) settles with Trump, there would be dangerous consequences for the news outlets we rely on to stay informed. Tell CBS to fight back against Trump's baseless lawsuit. 👇

The official White House account posted this.

Don’t 👏 comply 👏 in 👏 advance 👏 youtube.com/shorts/n4-UN...

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump. To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too. But we are all in this together.

NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

All 50 US States protested today but you wouldn’t know it unless you are on BlueSky. Remember to keep reaching out for others to join. This movement is going to get a lot bigger and we need all hands on deck. You are not alone. #3E #USprotests

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau uncovered $21 billion of cheating and returned it directly to Americans. That little agency is proof that we can make the government work for people. Trump and Musk want to take that away, but we won't stop fighting to protect it.

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

I just figured out how to put text onto memes and have created something so boomer it’s sure to annoy literally the entire political spectrum

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

NEW: A week after Elon Musk's DOGE gained access to Treasury's payments system, funds to the National Endowment for Democracy have been inexplicably frozen. The move is a huge win for Beijing, imperilling Chinese civil society groups around the world. www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/d...

🔥 This Saturday, join a nationwide action against Tesla & Musk 📅 Saturday, February 15th 📍 Tesla Showrooms Everywhere 🚨 Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines! ✅ Register or find your nearest action at TeslaTakedown.com and get a media advisory and toolkit #TeslaTakedown REPOST!

Brawndo is what plants crave

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Your legislature, hard at work

I hear the president had an impromptu press conference today. @realDonaldTrump was there too.

Be the hornet’s nest Don’t lose focus. They want obedience, distraction, division - but resistance is power. Protect yourself & each other. Control only exists if we comply - so don’t. Be ungovernable. Be unstoppable They’ve got their hands on this nest - make them regret it #bindingchaos #3E

the ironic thing about this is that, in this very article, the @nytimes.com continues their ‘shameful campaign against transgender americans’ they just straight up continue pushing the myth that trans ppl’s healthcare is a fit subject for public ‘debate’ my healthcare is my business. nobody else’s

Now in Los Angeles: 8th day of mass #USProtests continue against Musk and Trump's corruption and illegal deportation efforts. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy

Call to action: US national protest on Monday February 17 at your State Capitol or White House. Spread far and wide. End Impunity End Oligarchy End Autogenocide #3E #USprotests #eyesontheoval